[Bioperl-l] Re: Insanity of Swissprot parsing, take 2.

[Ewan Birney]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Wolfgang Fleischmann wrote:

> 
> However, and here comes the important part, he is also aware that
> nowadays most people look at preprocessed entries, be it htmlized,
> hyperlinked, beautified, whatever. On last retreat, he suggested to
> distribute two versions of swissprot: The good old EMBL style flat file
> and a more modern syntax, optimized for machine readability.
> 
> Can I suggest to focus lobbying on this new format?

Music to my ears. You have my full support. Should I sign a petition? ;)



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> Wolfgang
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> Wolfgang Fleischmann
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